After the Irish author declined an Israeli deal for a recent novel, we saw a chance to help strengthen the boycott movement — and clarify its aims.
It was five years ago that the bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney first declared her support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. At the time, Rooney had already published Hebrew translations of two of her novels with the Israeli publishing house Modan, but refused to translate a third.
A wave of reports (…)

ROAPE interviews legendary Minneapolis-based African American socialist August Nimtz. In the conversation, Nimtz shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectual journey from Pan-African nationalism to radical socialism, and offers his views on Cuba today, Black Lives Matter, and the anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis
Tell me about yourself, your upbringing and how you became radicalised.
I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, which has a (…)

Dans un épisode récent de l'émission « Asraneh », Ebrahim Alizadeh, premier secrétaire de Komalah, l'organisation kurde du Parti communiste iranien, a accordé une longue interview sur l'histoire de Komalah, la gauche iranienne, la question kurde, la formation du Parti communiste iranien, les scissions qui ont suivi et la situation politique actuelle en Iran.
Cette interview est importante car elle ne se résume pas à un simple exercice de mémoire. Il ne s'agit pas seulement d'une figure (…)

In a recent episode of “Asraneh”, Ebrahim Alizadeh, the First Secretary of Komalah, the Kurdistan Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, gave a long interview about the history of Komalah, the Iranian left, the Kurdish question, the formation of the Communist Party of Iran, the later splits, and the current political situation in Iran.
The interview matters because it is not only a memory exercise. It is not just an older political figure going back over organizational history. For (…)

The French trade union organizations CFDT, CGT, UNSA, Solidaires and FSU, as well as: trade union organizations from several countries, the “Organizing Committee” established by Iranian diaspora organizations, are calling for a rally in Geneva on June 5 in front of the United Nations headquarters, where the annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) is taking place.
We aim, through this rally: to denounce the presence of representatives of the Islamic Republic of (…)